Yet they would not be restrained.
"You certainly startled me; how do you know this?
Surely we have never met before ?" "I refuse to be questioned, sir; it means nothing how I know--the fact that I do should be sufficient." "But Mistress Claire--" "Rather Mistress Mortimer." "Yet the Captain called you Claire." "And we were children together--you can scarcely claim such familiarity." "I warrant you can name me." "Allen, is it not, sir ?" What was it the witch did not know! This was no guess-work, surely, and yet how could her strange knowledge be accounted for?
Sweet as the face was, greatly as it had attracted me, there was nothing to awaken a throb of memory.

Surely I could never have seen her before, and forgotten; that would have been impossible.

The music ceased, leaving us at the farther extremity of the hall.
"And now you will go ?" she questioned eagerly.
"Do you mean, leave here ?" "Yes; you said once to-night, that but for me you would be riding yonder.
I realized all you meant, and you must not remain.

The guard-lines are slack to-night, and you can get through, but if you wait until to-morrow it may be too late.

Believe me, I am your friend, a friend of your cause." "I do believe you; I could not connect you with deceit, but I am bewildered at this sudden exposure.